RE: [newbie]Change the command line prompt

1999-07-30 Thread Griffin, Michael
here is a basic question. how do i change the command line prompt from ["username"@localdomain /"directory"]#or$ to something more minimal say just something like $"/directory"> or #"/directory"> (depending on the user). it is my perceived understanding that the difference for the "#" sign and t

RE: [newbie] shut down properly

1999-07-15 Thread Griffin, Michael
it sounds like you are using xdm, which starts X automatically at boot time. it provides a graphical login. to get out of this, you will have to edit your inittab file. try the following: login as root open a terminal cd to /etc/ vi inittab read through the comments and there is a line related

[newbie] How do I burn the CD?

1999-06-28 Thread Griffin, Michael
I am downloading the i386 folder from the ftp site (a friend said that this was the right folder). I want to make a cd with it. I have a windoze machine with a cd burner and adaptec easy cd creator software. I would like to know if there are any special parameters or configurations etc. that I